City Champs KL is all over ...

Recently, City Champs KL was held at Comics Corner. There were 51 players attended the tournament. I was place at #36 after 6th round of swiss. I had 2 wins, 3 losses and 1 draw. It was bad enuff for me due to bad match-up against mono-red decks which my deck cant really handle it well. Here's a short recap of the matches that I played ..

1st round (vs. Nik)
Nik is a good fren of mine since long time ago when I was still working at The Mind Shop, SJ. He was playing mono-red. 1st game was very fast, hit me with burn spells after burn spells. 2nd game, he cast out a Magus of the Moon and I could not even counter it nor Terror it due to my lands are all mountains. Easy win for Nik.
0-1

2nd round (vs. Sashi aka Loco)
I can remember what he was playing, I know he has green stuff in his deck because I remember killing his Tarmo away. 1st game I won but Sashi took the 2nd and 3rd game.
0-2

3rd round (vs. a mono-g elf deck)
This game was a draw. 1st game I won and 2nd game he won. When comes to the 3rd game, time was call and he was down to 14 life left, I could not finish him off.
0-2-1

4th round (vs. another mono-red dude)
This game I won 2-0. I hit perfect curve stopping his Magus of the Moon from hitting the table. Mistbind Clique is the MVP for this round.
1-2-1

5th round (vs. Nico Sur)
He was playing a U/G control deck. 1st match I took an easy win but the 2nd and 3rd match, he manages to gain control. casting out CloudThresher and Tarmo, for that, he won the game.
1-3-1

6th round (vs. W/U control deck)
This game I won 2-0. 1st game, he wrath of god my creatures but not my Bitterblossom. 2nd game, 1st Mistbind Clique came down during his upkeep but no response to it ... and then a 2nd Mistbind Clique came down again and still no response. Its all good for me.
2-3-1

Now that City Champs is over, the next event will be the Shadowmoor pre-release. I hope to do better next time. Take care and cya.

Taking rest and prep-up

Today is another long day. When to Comics MART at Midvalley today and as always preparing myself for City Champs tomorrow. I just hope and pray at least I make it to top 8 im happy liao.

Then after that follow Mark to CCE Game Shop at Old Klang Road but did not manage to draft due to lack of players ... what to do .. some ppl just cant make it but I did enjoy myself helping Mark crack open 3 booster boxs of Morningtide. As I was .. got the Ancestral Vision and Morningtide t-shirt from Hari but sadly, the t-shirt was a tight fit but I'll wear it anyway.

Lastly .. yet again, I did some last minute changes to my deck knowing that the metagme might be Reveillar Combo and Mono-red decks. Wish me luck y'all.

Im going to take rest now ... in other words, im going to sleep larrr!! :)

Nitey nite .. byebyeeee :)

Changes .. changes .. changes

Yups, this time its all about changes. On my deck ofcuz for the City Champs happenning this weekend. My deck has been thru alot of changes after practicing in the whole of last week. From Notorious Throng to Ancestral Vision and is still all good.

Did alot of practicing with my team mates in Comic Mart, Midvalley today. Kenny will be using a U/R deck and Fahimy will be using a U/B deck, ofcuz ... I will not tell u guys what type of build they are both using for City Champs .. sssshhhhhh!!.

Tomorrow will be going to Midvalley again and then to CCE Game Shop for drafting session and FNM. Will be meeting up with Mark at Comics Mart.

Lastly, I will be going to Grand Prix Manila if everything works out as plans. I really wanna take Magic to the next level but going as many tournament as possible even if I have to travel outta Malaysia ... errr .. but not too far tho and not too expensive either.

I will keep my blog updated tmr on how well I do at draft and FNM tmr. Till next time ....

BYEBYE !! :)

Practice Practice Practice

Yup .. thats right. Practice .. practice .. practice for City Champs KL this weekend. Was practicing with Hari and Win today. Met Hari and Kenny at KL Sentral to collect the Kithkin deck and had a game at McDonalds. Hari was using a Reveillark Combo deck which im happy to against with .. why? cuz my deck never went against a Reveillark deck before. Oh yea .. I when to Toybox after that to buy some new sleeves for my deck to use in City Champs KL.

Then I head back home to Cyberjaya and met with Win and Yew Cheong, both are also Magic players at Old Town just opposite my work place. Win using a mono-red deck, this is also another deck i lack of practice against but now I had the change to so it. Yew Cheong using his mono-g elves deck against Win also.

It was a fantastic day for me till I got a called from my office saying that the meeting was cancelled. Its a long story and sorry, I rather not tell it cuz it really pissed me off.

Damn tired now and still have to goto work.

Till next time .... cheers.

Random stuff

Finally I found time to arrange all the commons and uncommons from the Morningtide booster box that I bought recently. All the cards that I have arrange, I will be keeping a playset that means 4 copies of each card into a folder and the rest I will either sell it away or give it for free to new Magic players. No point keep so many cards in my room, its already messy enuff .. LOL :p

Some of my foils are in another folder. Those 2 folders used to be my WOW tcg cards but since I have not been active lately, I decided to place it esle where. UDE really screw things up for Asia community that supports WOW tcg. Really dissapointed in UDE.

Anyway ... whatever lar .. to HELL with UDE !!!.

Next weekend will be the MTG City Champs 2008 which I think my deck is ready. Going to do some last minute practice with my team mate Kenny and Fahimy ... yeah ! yeah ! .. I have created a team just for Magic playtesting and cut cost on getting cards as well. Still looking for a 4 member to join our team.

Okie .. im hungry now, gonna have burgers for dinner. Tata~~

City Champs KL 2008

City Champs KL is just around the corner. This event will be held at Comic Corner (Subang Jaya) on March 30th, 2008. The format will be Type 2 standard constructed. This will be my 1st tournament since the past 1 year ago. I have to tell myself not to stop Magic anymore. The door gift and top 8 prizes are really exclusive. Here's what you will get ... Imperious Perfect as door gift and for top 8 is Doran, the Siege Tower.

Well .. I will be trying my UB Faeries deck for this tournament and also Im still in progress building my Kithkin aggro deck. Im still trying out different variety on the UB Faeries deck. I will post my final decklist here.

Thats all folks ... cya at City Champs.

Magic all over again.

Yea .. u read it corrently. Im back into Magic The Gathering all over again. After a long break from the game and also bad expriences in tournaments, I decided to give this game another chance. After playing The Spoils and WoW TCG, Magic is still a force to be rekon with. Magic thru the years keeps on pulling me back into playing it again and again. This time I must find away to stick with it. Do not get me wrong, I will still play The Spoils but not that competitive yet.

Why I started Magic, because of my fren. He also just started back and I told myself .. why not. I really regreted not attending the Pro Tour Kuala Lumpur, I know its one of those rare events that I have missed. I just hope next year there will be another world class event.

Anyway ... im in the process of making a new UB deck, I will just concetrate on UB for now cuz its my Magic favourite color currently. I will say goodbye to my UB Teachings deck and I will start constructing a UB Faeries deck, its a aggro/control deck and I just luv control decks.

Basically for Magic, I will just play sealed/draft and standard constructed format. I will not go for any other format.

Cheers.

Wanna learn how to play The Spoils TCG ?

Wanna learn how to play The Spoils TCG ?. Well ... i learn how to play, not by a friend but by using Youtube. There's these 2 guys from WoWRadio who has a video in Youtube teaching newcomers to the game on how to play the game in half-hour. Mostly they will teach the basic stuff but later on, after a few games, you will get the hang of it.

Here's the video ...



Enjoy :)

A Reality Shift Combo

that doesn't suck

1. Players have talked about a Reality Shift combo since Seed's release. But the decks that they built around the idea suffered from two fatal flaws:

2. They required multiple cards to be in your hand before you went off. This necessitated dedicating large chunks of the decklist to combo pieces, which made the decks weaker in general and less consistent. They required you to have a lot of material in play. To win the game with Shift-Millipede-Tinker-Replication-Rifleman, for example, you need to have cards in play with a total numeric cost of 12. But if you have that much on the board, you're probably in a winning position anyway!



This version of the combo gets around these problems because

1. Adding Prototype to the plan allows you to go off with only one card in hand. The rest of the combo pieces may be one-ofs because you can search them out of your deck.

2. Using 700160x 31f and cost-reducers like Senior Research Assistant and Adjunct Artisan makes it easier to ramp up to the necessary board material. Also the combo can go off with a much smaller board presence, making it more likely that when you play Shift, you actually need to play it to win.

I've been fooling around with a Purple Haze/Combo hybrid build. The idea behind it is that it can win two ways: an explosive start like 1337!, Senior, 633fy, or 700160x, Basic, Basic, 633fy, supported by Prototype + bounce, wins by dealing a fast 25, or a slower draw manages to stall the board until it can win with the combo.

The core of the deck looks something like this:

2 Elitism
4 Neurosis
11-14 Obsession

4 Basic Node
4 633fy 31f
4 700160x 31f
4 Quotidian Ejector
4 Senior Research Assistant
3-4 Violating Anomaly
4 Luteoderm Prototype
1-2 DethMurderBludgeon, the Craghammer
4 1337!
4 Quotidian Assassination
4 12 Man Brunch of Doom
4 Brainbath

3-4 Reality Shift
1 Voidal Replication
1 Ectypal Stave
1 Thabbashite Haruspex
1 Adjunct Artisan

That's 68-74 cards. With the remaining slots you might want to put in redundant combo pieces or recursion such as Rouse, Rummaging Millipede, or Recollection Bazaar. Another option is to add more control elements in the form of Forget, Servile Centipede, or Confounding Conjurer.

Note also that there are many different board configurations that allow you to go off; 700160x 31f with DethMurderBludgeon and Prototype is just the easiest to set up. For example, if you control the following:

- Senior Research Assistant
- Luteoderm Prototype
- 2 Basic Node
- 6 resources

you can go off with just Shift in your hand. With 1337! and Shift you could go off with only five resources, although two of them would have to be Neurosis to meet Shift's threshold.

Feel free to visit Will Morgan's The Spoil page for more articles and tips at http://www.thespoilsonline.com/

Welcome ...

Here is my 2nd blog at blogspot. My previous blog is over-packed with so many blog categories, so I decided to move my trading card hobbies to this blog, which is mainly on The Spoils TCG which I started recently. What I will post in the blog is tournament reports, articles which I will be writing to Team Covenant (I hope so), event in Toybox (Local hobby shop) and news/updates .. all about The Spoils TCG. Recently I just drafted The Spoils which I will do a tournament report on it soon here. Signing off.

Cheers